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| author |   Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2019-03-31 19:17:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2019-03-31 19:17:26 +0000 |
| commit | b47a48381f6e2b74024bf3e206d9fbf1da41c75d (patch) | |
| tree | 08acb3b030727c34e12e756ffc6b27d6f203cf4b /mandoc_char.7 | |
| parent | ee936d8dd91dc5f460c162e67bceee5ad20bb0c6 (diff) | |
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While we do encourage simplicity in the sense of writing plain '-'
for hyphen-minus, soften the language a bit: writing \- for it is
not wrong, and people started sending us patches to replace \- with '-'
in existing manual pages, which is not a worthwhile change unless
the \- is used at a place where it doesn't belong.
OK jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'mandoc_char.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | mandoc_char.7 | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mandoc_char.7 b/mandoc_char.7 index 578f37f1..b46575d4 100644 --- a/mandoc_char.7 +++ b/mandoc_char.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.75 2018/12/15 19:30:26 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.76 2019/03/31 19:17:26 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2003 Jason McIntyre <jmc@openbsd.org> .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: December 15 2018 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: March 31 2019 $ .Dt MANDOC_CHAR 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ supporting it, for example in .Fl T Cm utf8 and .Fl T Cm html . -But currently, no practically relevant manual page formatter actually -requires that subtlety, so in manual pages just write plain +But currently, no practically relevant manual page formatter requires +that subtlety, so in manual pages, it is sufficient to write plain .Sq - to represent hyphen, minus, and hyphen-minus. .Pp |